TELEGRAM TO G. V. CHICHERIN[2]

Written:Written on May 14, 1922Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 45.

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Ifwe have correctly understood the press comments over
the situation created by our reply, Lloyd George is
prepared to separate an immediate political agreement on peace
from financial-economic agreements which are to be
referred to a long
commission.[3]This would be the best
outcome and an unquestionable victory, that is why we
recommend:
1) to continue the absolutely uncompromising
line in the economic sphere, agreeing to a long commission,
2) to give every support to Lloyd George in his urge for a
political agreement (guarantee, treaty),
3) in every way to
strive for separate agreements with various countries,
4) to make every possible use of Lloyd George’s approach to
the question of the eastern boundaries of Poland and
Rumania, indicating that these boundaries are obstacles to
the establishment of peace, but this should be done
cautiously, so as not to draw criticism about departures from the
Riga
Treaty.[4]We repeat our request that you urgently
communicate to us basic propositions for an All-Russia
C.E.C. resolution on Joffe’s report, especially in
connection with the Rapallo Treaty—see our telegram
No. 3535/c.[1]

[1]SeeDocument 720 of this volume.—Ed.—Lenin

[2]Thetelegram proposed by Lenin was adopted by the Politbureau
of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C. on May 14, 1922, and sent to G. V.
Chicherin.

[3]Areference to the memorandum of the Soviet delegation of May 
11, 1922.

Inpursuance of the directives of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C., the
delegation rejected the demands of the Entente countries, declaring
that unless they recognised the principle of reciprocity, Soviet
Russia would not make concessions. It proposed that a mixed
expert committee should be set up to study the controversial
financial matters.

Thus,the negotiations at Genoa were broken off through the
fault of the Entente powers, which refused to repudiate their
colonialist altitude towards Soviet Russia.

Theactivity of the Soviet delegation was approved by the
All-Russia C.E.C. session, which on May 17 adopted a
resolution on A. A. Joffe’s report. The resolution was drafted by
Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 33, pp. 356–57).

[4]TheRiga Peace Treaty was signed on March 18, 1921, by Russia
and the Ukraine, on the one hand, and Poland, on the other (seeDokumenty me shut I politiki SSSR, Vol. V, Moscow, 1961, p. 401).